tsetse fly (redirected from Tse Tse Fly)

fly (fli) a dipterous, or two-winged, insect that is often the vector of organisms causing disease.

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tsetse fly  see Glossina.

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tset·se fly or tzet·ze fly (tsts, tsts)

n.

Any of several two-winged bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, often carrying and transmitting pathogenic trypanosomes to humans and livestock.

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tsetse fly

[tset′sē, tsē′tsē]

Etymology: Afr, tsetse + AS, flyge

a blood-sucking fly found in regions of Africa, mainly south of the Sahara desert. It is an insect of the Glossina genus and a secondary host of trypanosomes, which cause African sleeping sickness and other diseases in humans and domestic and wild animals. Also spelled tzetze fly. See also trypanosomiasis.